50 flix in 2006

[Dan]

If you watch a movie multiple times in the same year, that counts as 1 or total number of times viewed?  I've been known to watch the same movie three times in a month, let alone the year.

[Wherle]

One movie counts as one, if you ask me.

As far as watching 100 movies, I'd never make it.

[Ella Minnow Pea]

I go with you can count a movie once per year, regardless of how many times you actually watch it in year. So we're aiming for 50 different movies in the year.

[Dan]

I go with you can count a movie once per year, regardless of how many times you actually watch it in year. So we're aiming for 50 different movies in the year.

d'oh.  That puts a hurt on me.  Izzokay, tho.  I'll still make it.

1. King Kong
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Underworld

[trixi]

1.  Brokeback Mountain

[Dan]

1. King Kong
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Underworld

Adding to that:
4. Oldboy
5. Rounders

[whigsgeek]

1. The Squid & the Whale
2. Wolf Creek (which made me sick to my stomach for two days; I hated it)
3. Four Brothers (DVD)

Adding ...

4. Basquiat (DVD)
5. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (DVD)
6. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (PPV)

Interesting film-geek bit about Dominion -- this is the original version of the film as directed and edited by Paul Schrader (director of, among other films, Affliction and The Comfort of Strangers, one of my all-time favorite films; he also wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and the screenplay for Last Temptation of Christ).

When the studio didn't like the final film, they fired Schrader and hired that idiot Reny Harlin to do it over. The Harlin version blew hole at the box office (what a surprise). This gave Schrader the okay to finish what he had started with Dominion and it was released last year. Obviously nothing will ever be as good as the original Exorcist, but this wasn't nearly as bad a go as I expected.

[Atzend]

I think I may be able to manage this.

1.  Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic  (Sars don't forget to add this one to your list).
2.  I <3 Huckabees
3.  Dead and Breakfast

Just to make it a little more of a challenge.  I'm only going to count movies that I've never seen before this year.

[Wherle]

Just to make it a little more of a challenge.  I'm only going to count movies that I've never seen before this year.

Same here.

[Dan]

oooh, interesting idea.  I shall make two lists, then - ones I haven't seen and ones I have.  But what about Rounders?  I rented that thinking it was something else entirely, but then as the movie went on I sort of knew what was going to happen in certain scenes, but not the whole movie.  Clearly, I'd seen it but didn't remember it.  Which category is that? I didn't know I'd seen it when I rented it.

[Atzend]

Hmmm...that's an interesting question.  I may stumble across that.  I would mark it into a new one since you didn't remember and may not have seen the whole movie all the way through, just parts of it.

[scurvygirl]

1.  Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic  (Sars don't forget to add this one to your list).

Thanks for the reminder!  And again, thanks for the free show!

Just to make it a little more of a challenge.  I'm only going to count movies that I've never seen before this year.

Good idea.  I'm still counting Serenity only because I saw it in a theatre again.  Hopefully I won't be a complete jackass and make more little exceptions like this.

1.  Serenity
2.  Constantine (total pants!)
3.  The Notebook

adding to this

4. Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic
5. The Life of David Gale
6. Hidalgo (yawn!)

I'd love to add Mean Girls to the list since I watched it on Thursday, but I've seen it like 5 times already.  I love that movie!

[whigsgeek]

1. The Squid & the Whale
2. Wolf Creek (which made me sick to my stomach for two days; I hated it)
3. Four Brothers (DVD)

Adding ...

4. Basquiat (DVD)
5. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (DVD)
6. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (PPV)

I'm in for the challenge of only counting movies not seen before, so I'll revise the above three:

4. Basquiat (DVD)
5. Dominion:Prequel to the Exorcist (PPV)
6. New Orleans (TCM)

New Orleans was a great surprise find today. Produced in 1947, the film more than makes up in music for what it lacks in acting. Features Louie Armstrong, Woody Herman, and Billie Holiday in supporting roles.

[Jonathan]

oooh, interesting idea.  I shall make two lists, then - ones I haven't seen and ones I have.  But what about Rounders?  I rented that thinking it was something else entirely, but then as the movie went on I sort of knew what was going to happen in certain scenes, but not the whole movie.  Clearly, I'd seen it but didn't remember it.  Which category is that? I didn't know I'd seen it when I rented it.

Are you trying to make this more difficult than it needs to be?  

[Atzend]

1.  Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic  (Sars don't forget to add this one to your list).
2.  I <3 Huckabees
3.  Dead and Breakfast

4. Legally Blonde

And through no conscious effort the last two movies on the list share the common actor of Oz Perkins.  Almost, but not quite like my unintentional run of four Keith David films last fall.